Gathering Prey

"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes-they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, she's afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. She's hiding out in North Dakota, and she doesn't know what to do. Letty tells Lucas she's going to get her, and, though he suspects Letty's getting played, he volunteers to go with her. When he hears the woman's story, though, he begins to think there's something in it. Little does he know. In the days to come, he will embark upon an odyssey through a subculture unlike any he has ever seen, a trip that will not only put the two of them in danger-but just may change the course of his life"--

First of John Sanford's books I have read and I think I will now go back to the first in the Prey series and read them all. Not often a Pulitzer winner for reporting writes fiction so well. I recommend his web site and you should read through his dispatches from his visit to Iraq. John Roswell Camp is the real name guess he was afraid his fiction would spoil his rep as a serious correspondent.

Nothing like a new Lucas to curl up with and a long weekend to do it in as they are inevitably un-put-downable!! Found this to be better than his average as well: the 'Travellers' got under my skin and I was very glad when Lucas got involved. Also, I really like Letty and would like to see more of her, preferably partnered with Lucas, in the books. Love her attitude!

Sandford's success in writing is that while he writes essentially police procedurals, they are both closer to actual dialogue, plus realistically-based office interactions: the dedicated, hard worker versus the management sleaze [usually nepotistic or politcal appointments] - - something many, if not most people, can attest to.
Typical fine craftsmanship from Sandford, although still have to call the YA book, Uncaged, his best [written with his co-author wife]. Interesting to see how he handles his upcoming SF debut, Saturn Run?

They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes-they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, she's afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. Letty tells Lucas she's going to get her, and, though he suspects Letty's getting played, he volunteers to go with her. When he hears the woman's story, though, he begins to think there's something in it. Little does he know. In the days to come, he will embark upon an odyssey through a subculture unlike any he has ever seen, a trip that will not only put the two of them in danger-but just may change the course of his life.